Word: lyricisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retreat to the ordinary concerns of cinema. Last year's Palme d'Or winners, Missing from the U.S. and Yol from Turkey, played like news bulletins from Third World battlegrounds. This year's winner, Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama, is a harshly elemental lyric about Japanese mountain folk that could have been made any time in the past three decades. Two survivors of the international film wars won special consolations, Grand Prize for Cinema Creation: France's Robert Bresson for L 'Argent, a lucid, listless parable about how money corrupts...
...elderly lady was so shaken she had difficulty keeping hold of her stainless-steel walker as she made her way around the stage entrance of Chicago's Lyric Opera last week. A musician friend spotted her and inquired how she had enjoyed this new, undeniably upstart production of The Mikado. "Well," she said, mustering her best backstage diplomacy, "it certainly must be fun to do." "Oh, yeah," he agreed. "It's crazy...
...startled senior citizen, to Gilbert and Sullivan traditionalists-Can there be such a thing as a Gilbert and Sullivan radical?-and to anyone else who expected an orthodox production that was proper right down to the last parasol. There wasn't a bumbershoot of any description on the Lyric stage. No fans either. They were replaced with tokens and totems of the new pan-Orientalism: signs that blink out Sony, Seiko and, inevitably, Coca-Cola; NankiPoo (Tenor Neil Rosenshein), the wandering minstrel, transformed into a rocker with a red guitar; Yum-Yum (Soprano Michelle Harman-Gulick) in a flared...
...Richell, artistic director of the Lyric Stage Theatre Company, said this week that this is the first time the theatre space has been rented out to a student ensemble. He added that the Lyric Stage, with its 114 seats, will provide a "good audience foundation" for the repertory because of its high subscription rate...
...director added but he wants to encourage Harvard students to addition for the show. Auditions will be hold May 9 and 10 at the Lyric Stage, where the show will run from late June through early August...